Democratic Underground - Hey, Grantcart, read your journal post --

-- and was struck by the specific item you're looking for Obama to do -- "Create incentives and taxes that will take petroleum out of the car industry in 15 years."

The reason I was struck by this, is because since you didn't reference them, I wonder whether you're aware of the incentives towards both the consumer and manufacturer areas that have been undertaken towards that objective:

These are just some of the alternative energy items in the Recovery Act:
http://apolloalliance.org/feature-articles/clean-energy-provisions-of-stimulus-are-consistent-with-apollo-economic-recovery-act/

$300 million to help states and cities purchase alternative-fuel transit vehicles.

$300 million to replace older fleet vehicles owned by the federal government with alternative fuel automobiles.

$400 million for grants to state and local governments for projects to develop infrastructure that supports widespread use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

$300 million to EPA for diesel emission reduction programs.

Provides a tax credit of up to $7,500 for purchase of plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Increases alternative fuel and electricity fueling station property tax credit for businesses to 50%.

Creates a tax credit for purchase of electric vehicle conversion kits

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Article: White House set to increase clean energy tax credits by $5bn
Huge increase in tax breaks proposed for manufacturers in the wind, geothermal and solar sectors in the US as part of wider job creation programme
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2255189/white-house-proposes-extending

electric vehicles would get a 30 per cent tax credit....

released a progress report this week on the US transformation to a clean energy economy.

by the end of next year the country will be committed to more than 15GW of new wind, solar and geothermal energy capacity,

$16bn of support for the electric car industry will mean three new electric vehicle plants and 30 new battery and other electric vehicle manufacturing plants will be opened in the next six years.

FuelEconomy.gov:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax_afv.shtml

Also, the creation of high-speed rail is part of the effort to take fossil fuels off the road

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-and-the-Vice-President-on-High-Speed-Rail/

we're going to be able to pull people off the road, lowering our dependence on foreign oil, lowering the bill for our gas in our gas tanks.

we're going to significantly lessen the damage to our planet. This is a giant environmental down payment."

"In 6 months from now, Mr. President, you will not be judged on your response to this crises based on how well you coordinated the cleanup but how effective you are in making these wells redundant."

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